Clustering Dynamics and the Location of High-Tech-Firms

Maggioni, Mario A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-57480-1

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“…Research should focus more on identifying the dynamics of selection mechanisms (such as competition and imitation) at various levels to explain stability and change in clusters. This would meet worries expressed in the literature that clusters are often treated as static, instead of dynamic entities (Maggioni, 2002;Carlsson, 2003;Martin and Sunley, 2003). And cluster research has to recognise that clusters can develop dysfunctional features that often give rise to diseconomies and negative economic effects, a point also made by Martin and Sunley (2003).…”

Section: Firm Dynamics Industrial Dynamics and Spatial Clusteringmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography

Boschma¹,

Martin²

2010

The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography

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This aim of this paper is to present the objectives and scope of an evolutionary approach to economic geography. We argue that the goal is not only to utilise the concepts and ideas from evolutionary economics (and evolutionary thinking more broadly) to help interpret and explain how the economic landscape changes over historical time, but also to reveal how situating the economy in space adds to our understanding of the processes that drive economic evolution, that is to say, to demonstrate how geography matters in determining the nature and trajectory of evolution of the economic system. We will argue that evolutionary economic geography is concerned with the spatialities of economic novelty; with how the spatial structures of the economy emerge from the micro-behaviours of economic agents; with how, in the absence of central coordination or direction, the economic landscape exhibits self-organisation; and with how the processes of path creation and path dependence interact to shape geographies of economic development and transformation, and why and how such processes may themselves be place dependent. Economic transformation proceeds differently in different places, and the mechanisms involved neither originate nor operate evenly across space. Our concern is both with the ways in which the forces making for economic change, adaptation and novelty shape and reshape the geographies of wealth creation, work and welfare, and with how the spatial structures and features so produced themselves feed back to influence the forces driving economic evolution. In the final part, we summarize a number of papers that have contributed to evolutionary economic geography, and which will be published in The Handbook on Evolutionary Economic Geography that is edited by the two authors, and forthcoming at Edward Elgar.

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Section: Firm Dynamics Industrial Dynamics and Spatial Clusteringmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography

Boschma¹,

Martin²

2010

The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography

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“…As a rule, the stage is described using the age and the growth of the cluster in analogy to the industry life cycle (ENRIGHT, 2003;DALUM et al, 2005;MAGGIONI, 2002). This similarity holds not only for the quantitative development of industries and clusters, but also for their qualitative development.…”

Section: Industry Life Cycles and Clustersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cluster Life Cycles - Dimensions and Rationales of Cluster Development

Menzel

Fornahl

Planck³

2007

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractWe present a model that explains how a cluster moves through a life cycle and why this movement differs from the industry life cycle. The model is based on three key processes: the changing heterogeneity in the cluster describes the movement of the cluster through the life cycle; the geographical absorptive capacity enables clustered companies to take advantage of a larger diversity of knowledge and the stronger convergence of clustered companies compared to non-clustered companies results in a reduction of heterogeneity. We apply these processes to four stages of the cluster life cycle: emergence, growth, sustainment and decline.JEL-classification: R11, O30, L25

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“…Some studies have over time analyzed through empirical research, the factors on the basis of the competitive advantage of firms operating in the sphere of high-tech clusters (Latouche, 1998;Longhi, 1999;Heath, 1999;Charles & Benneworth, 2001;Maggioni, 2002;Bresnahan & Gambardella, 2004;Wallsten, 2004;Wolfe & Gertler, 2004;Braunerhjelm & Feldman, 2006), facilitating the identification of the most efficient innovation policies to improve the development of the clusters.…”

Section: Regional Innovation Policies and Cluster Life-cyclementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, cluster evolution is a separate object of study. (Frenken, Cefis, & Stam, 2011, p. 14) Over time various studies have more systematically analyzed the characteristics of the cluster life cycle and the differences with the industry life cycle (Maggioni, 2002;Iammarino & McCann, 2005).…”

Section: Regional Innovation Policies and Cluster Life-cyclementioning

confidence: 99%

Regional Innovation Policies for High-Technology Firms: The Importance of the Cluster Life Cycle

2013

CBR

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The present work makes an in-depth analysis of an aspect not yet sufficiently examined by the studies into regional innovation systems, relating to why the policy makers must adopt regional innovation policies in accordance with the development cycle of the active clusters in the territory. The analysis carried out in the course of the work contributes towards understanding the validity of an evolutionary-type development model for which the regional innovation policies for the growth of high-tech firms should dynamically change in relation to the various cluster stages. The development model proposed provides a framework for the policy makers in order to state more efficiently through time the regional innovation strategies.

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Clustering Dynamics and the Location of High-Tech-Firms

Cited by 96 publications

References 107 publications

The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography

The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography

Cluster Life Cycles - Dimensions and Rationales of Cluster Development

Regional Innovation Policies for High-Technology Firms: The Importance of the Cluster Life Cycle

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